Pie pan



June 1 1926.

J. S. DOOLY PIE PAN Filed April 30 1925 2 o n I IN VENTOP 5gg 6 JoAn 5. 1301 7.

HT TC IP Patented June 1, 1926.

JOHN S. DOOLY, OF 5'1. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

application filed April so, 1925. Serial No. 28,827.

My invention relates to pans for baking pies, and specifically to a plurality of sections detachably joined together into a single unit.

The object of my invention is to provide a pie baking pan in which equal and individual portions may be made and baked as a unit, so that the juices and fruits will be equally distributed when served and, also, to prevent the rapid drying up of the contents of a pie when out or divided into individual portions.

Other and further objects and advantages will be ap arent from the specification, claims and rawings.

Fig. 1 is a plan view.

Fig. 2 isa cross section at 22.

Fig. 3 is a plan view, broken away, of the v containin body.

Fig. 4; 1s a section of containing body at Fig. 5 is aplan view of a detachable section. i

Fi 6 is a section of 5 at 66. W'Eere pie is sold and served in individual portions, as is done in restaurants, cafeterias and other'eating-h uses, the portions served often lack unifo mity of size, the juices and fruits flow out of the crust and spread over the plate, and the unserved portions rapidly deteriorate in flavor and enticing qualities, because when the crusts are severed the contents is exposed to the drying effect of the air.

Again, several kinds of pics can be made and baked in the same tin where a small variety, such as two portions of apple, two of I peach and-two of apricot, .is desired for a few persons living together and having different tastes. With the usual and ordinary pie pan, where several kinds of ies are desired, there must be made a w ole pic of each kind desired.

To overcome the difficulties and objections above referred to, I have provided a single unit having a plurality of detachable pans,

so that as above noted several kinds of individual portions can be made and baked as a Whole pie and each retain its distinct flavor and quality. j

Although various shapes can be readily 5 made up of the individual. units, my prewheel-like frame havin 2 spaced rim 1, a

holding the individual units in fixed relation to each other, described. a

The embossed ribs or beads 5 serve the further purpose of providing a guide for dividing the pie into exactly equalportions.

The plurality of identical individual pie pans 6 are provided, of substantially triangular form except-the base of the triangle is an are instead of a straight line.

as shown in Fig. 5, and later legs 8 of the frame. The legs 8, the annular rim 1, the spokes 2 and the hub portion 3 are all integral with each other, being 0 p The central portions of the pans 6 are depressed in stamped and formed of a single sheet of thin sheet metal.

The flange 8, shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, has its inner end cut away at an angle, because there 1s not sufiicient metal to form a ri ht angle when turned downwardly.

aving fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and for which I V desire Letters Patent is A pie pan of the character descrlbed, comprismg a frame consisting of a circular rim integral with a plurality of .radially disposed members spaced apart at equal distances from each other and integrally joined I together in the geometrical center of said f me, and radial mem ers having their 1011- gitudinal marginal edges turned down at right angles to a horizontal plane and adapted to support the said frame in a horizontal plane, a plurality of identical individual pie pans adapted to restupon said frame and adapted to fit the openings between the said radial members, so that the flanged marginal edges of the said individual ans lie parallel with the longitudinal axes o the said radial members. a o

In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

JOHN s. Doom. 

